Abstraction; A Distant Fawn; Night Sea Journey by Patrick Wright
Off in the glades, a fawn crouches, hears its own heartbeat, a wolf upwind. & still a whole field killed by lightning. [...]
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Short Fiction and Poetry
No News For Me by Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz
The anxiety pounds
& Fear
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my marrow [...]
The Family Business by Celia Lisset Alvarez
How does one wind up opening a mattress store? For Jorge, it was the family business [...]
The Solitude of Drowning; I Love Your Every Shade of Dark by Elizabeth Mercurio
Drive out to the wild coast, to forget.
Imagine a life—
drift across the Atlantic
& don’t look back [...]
We Aren't Bad Guys by Garry Engkent
The old geezer was willing to pay me twenty bucks for doing very little [...]
The Salesman by Christopher Butt
The man stood on the corner of Main and Cabot surveying his area. He was six feet tall, thin and wearing a black three-piece suit [...]
Old Mrs. Twaddle by Lynda Scott Araya
Trudy Twaddle rubbed clear the bleary kitchen window. Dead cluster flies crusted the frame...Outside, her towels hung sullenly [...]
The Best of Times by Melanie Bee Cee
Mikael looked out the window at the dusty town street. He was only five, and rather short, so stood on his tip toes to peer out [...]
Maleficent's Curse Revised; The Wicked Witch of the West by Celia Lisset Alvarez
A spindly death at sixteen is not too bad a fate.
What’s there to lose but youth?
What’s there to fear but death? [...]
Seedling by Lene MacLeod
The edge of my lot met a narrow laneway, and on the other side, in that neighbour’s yard there was a black garbage bag. It moved [...]
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